godwards

If poetry for Hill is a 'mode of moral life' ( 'charred prayers/spiralling godwards on intense thermals'), the evidence here lies more in design than example — the morals are in lieu of, not on behalf.

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He is naught to godwards, of whom he hath receyued a chylde for thys purpose, to brynge hym vp to vertue.

The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502